Rhode Island manufacturers produced slave blankets, bagging (sacks used for harvesting cotton), and brogans (cheap, ill-fitting shoes) for enslaved people in the South.

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  Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University

Sources

• Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Brown University slaveryandjusticereport.brown.edu Brown University via serper

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